The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-09-12
MASS MEETING.
Hundreds OF RawaiIans AMI For
'IgnPr~ 81 the ArmOry-StirrlnS
Addresses.

Last Saturday evening a mass meet
ing was held at the Armory, Brewers
wharf, which was largely attended. j.
NJ. Poepoe opened the meeting and
made few remarks.
He was followed by P. O'Sullivan,
who, in the course of his remarks, was
interrupted on several occasions by
man named Murray The latter got
severely handled later on for his inter
ference.
In response to loud cries for Rosa,
that gentleman assembled the balcony
amid loud cheers from the vast assem-
blage. As soon as quiet was restored
he addressed them in English, substan-
TALLY as follows Fellow-citizens, friends
and Countrymen: In response to re-
quests from many English-speaking
people of this community, appear be-
fore you this evening to give you my
views upon the present situation of our
country, and before proceed l ask that
you will not make any such remarks as
will tend to create disturbance, as some
of you have done while one of the
previous speakers was making his adj
address.
1 claim it is the right of every indi-
vidual to express his views in public on
the present situation of the country as
long as he does not violate any OF the
laws thereof. The subject of my re-
marks this evening will be the new
Constitution. [ assure you tonight that
[ approve of it, with some exceptions,
which [ will hereafter pass upon. But
| am not afraid to say openly that dis
approve of the manner in which it was
obtained, and 1 shall continue to say so
as long as there is a drop of Hawaiian
blood in me. [Cheers.l 1t has estab-
lished a bad precedent; for in some
future day another lot of Disconnected
men may rise and demand of the King
another Constitution, and we will be in
a continual state Of tumult. 1t was so
done before and it can be repeated.
say [ approve of this Constitution upon
one particular point, and that is that it
deprives the King of the power of dis
missing the Ministry. No Government
could be safely carried on with that
power in the hands of the King Even
some of our best men have been made
to suffer through it, and l say that as
long as that power remained so we could
not be assured of good government
[Cheersl.
Now that it is secured we may be sure
of having good government, and in this
[ think you will all agree with me.
rCheersl And now to the new Cabinet.
They are men in whom place conf
dpnce as far as honesty goes. But as to
being reform men I doubt it much.
They went in as fine choice of the
Reform Party but I fail to see where
reform comes in when they have openly
violated the Constitution they swore to
m the first day of July when they took
office The oath they took says in suh-
stance that they do solemnly swear in
he presence Of the Almighty God that
they will support the Constitution (Old)
and laws of the Hawaiian Kingdom" l
tell you fellow citizens, when they took
that oath they were intriguing with
others for another Constitutiou--for on
the 9th July they advised the King to
abrogate the old Constitution and to pro
mulgate new one. They violated their
previous oaths to support the old Consti-
tuition when they did so.
Secondly, thev have violated the laws
Of the Kingdom in that they gave bonds
in payment for claims in the burnt dis
trict. These bonds are a part of the
money to be borrowed under the Loan
Act which says that the monies borrowed
under it are to be spent for the following
purposes and none other, and the pur-
poses are particularized. The item to
which these claims should be charged to
is given in the Appropriation Bill as
''Road damages $275, 900" But since
the attack upon the Government by the
''Alakai" and Finance they have sus-
pended the further issue of bonds.
They have also committed other
breaches of law. use these points to
show that these gentlemen are not con-
sistent with the principle they advocate,
which is reform. The late Governments
were charged with these very things
which have been characterized as fraud
and corruption. Another instance of
their inconsistency is the fact that they
are nursing this $4,000 fraud of Ash
lords.
Here a number of the so-called League
men and some of the officers and mem
bers of the Honolulu Rifles Missed and
attempted to break up the meeting.l
Mr.. Rosa, resuming, said: l have
nothing against Mr.. Ashford personally,
but claim that l have the right to at
tack him politically. He served the
purposes for which he was designed, but